Improvement in lamp-wick attachments



UI'rE HENRY RAUSGHOUSAN, OF GORNWALL,QOANADA.

IMPROVEMENT IN LAMP-WICK ATTACHMENTS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 179,346, dated J une27, 1876, application filed May 22, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, HENRY RAUSOHOUSAN, ofCornwall, Stormont county, Province of Ontario and Dominion of Canada,have invented a new and Improved LampWick Attachment, of which thefollowing is a specification:

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents my improved attachmentapplied to a lamp-wick. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of the same takenthrough the line X K, Fig. l; and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of theattachment, shown opened.

Similar figures and letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of my invention is to furnish an improved device forattaching the ornamental false wick to the regular wick, so that the oilcan all be consumed when the regular wick gets short, lessening the riskof explosion when the wick gets short or fits badly, and the oil getslow, and rendering it unnecessary to refill the lamp so often.

My invention consists in the clamp formed of the two plates, hinged toeach other at one end,and provided with teeth upon their alternate sideedges, to adapt it to connect and hold the adjacent ends of two Wicks,as hereinafter fully described.

111 the annexed drawing, A represents the regular or burning wick, and Brepresents the ornamental or feed wick. O is the device by which the endof the wick Bis connected with the end of the wick A. The device 0consists of two plates which are hinged to each other at one end, andthe other ends of which overlap and are fastened together by aprojection upon one end and a recess or hole upon the other end, asshown in Fig. 3. The ends of the two plates are bent inwardly, so as toleave enough space between the said plates to receive the two wickswithout clamping them so tightly as to impede the passage of the oil.The plates 0 have inweirdly-projecting teeth upon their alternate sideedges to enter the wicks A B and keep them from slipping out of the saidclamp C. With this construction the wick B will act as a feeder to thewick A, and will keep it supplied with oil, so that it can be burneduntil its lower end reaches the burner, enabling all the oil in the lampto be burned up, and preventing'any danger from explosion from the wickburning down into the burner, when the oil gets below the end of theburning wick.

Having thus described my invention, what 1 claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

The clamp O,fo.rmed of the two plateshinged to each other at one end,and provided with teeth upon their alternate side edges, to adapt it toconnect and hold the adjacent ends of two wicks, substantially as hereinshown and described.

HENRY RAUSCHOUSAN.

